Superhero

Keep up the good work Steve! Hey if his new best friend George can call him Steve then surely so can I. Steve's done what I have no doubt the Liberals desperately wanted to do but decided against due to overwhelming public opinion against it: Join the Axis of Good also known as the Justice League of America. Instead of Superman, the Flash, the Green Lantern and Thor, you've got George W Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard, Ehud Olmert and Steve Harper. Anglo-Saxon warriors all along with their Jewish sidekick busting uppity Muslim heads around the world. Who would have thought being good would have been so fun!

Steve is clearly positioning himself as a superhero a la Bush. Let's not forget Steve's heroic decision to fly his plane to Cyprus following the G8 conference in Russia. He personally picked up a handful of Canadians to bring them home and out of the war zone. What a man! He's starting to sound like Rambo! Thankfully most rescued Canadians saw through his grandstanding and it was widely recognized that Steve's micromanagement of the rescue actually slowed down the government's response and endangered the lives of Canadians.

By joining the Justice League, Steve has demonstrated that public opinion means nothing to him. It doesn't matter that barely a third of Canadians support their Prime Minister's declaration that Israel is engaged in a 'measured response' to Hizbullah's provocations. Obviously Steve can't do math and has no understanding of the word power. Remember when the Israeli Chief of Staff pledged 'to turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years'? This is the definition of measured for Steve. Even now his caucus is meeting to discuss the Middle East and the PM's dismal poll numbers; their proposals include the ludicrous notion that they should continue to blatantly support Israel and just throw the Lebanese and the Palestinians some scraps of aid to offset their bias.

Steve's unconditional support for Israel, even as an unarmed Canadian UN observer is blown to bits as well as a few Lebanese Canadians (we know they don't count Steve), demonstrates that he's uninterested in winning a majority government in the next election. He was well on his way to achieving this goal, much to my chagrin. He was joking around, occupying the middle ground evacuated by Paul Martin and courting Quebec; now he looks a joke, stands with occupiers and has alienated Quebec.

Phew! Keep up the good work Steve. Don't change a thing.